10 rising stars of the organic world

Fresh back from the Organic Food Festival yesterday, I've just realised how many upcoming organic food, beauty and clothing brands there are. Forget your Green & Blacks, Yeo Valleys and Howies for one minute - much as I love all three - here are ten new(ish) faces that you should watch out for.

1. Rude Health Organic Foods (pictued above). If you're going to be caricatured as sandal-wearing, Guardian-reading, muesli-eating leftie, you may as well eat good muesli while you're at it. Rude's Ultimate Museli is delicious and rammed with an unusual and mighty healthy ingredient - Chinese Goji berries. It also sells refill bags to cut down on waste. £6 for a reusable 500g tub.
2. Luma. I bought an organic canvas shopping bag off this purveyor of very simple organic bed linens, towels and other textiles. The cotton comes from organic cotton farms in Peru and India that apparently 'preserve sustainable...methods'. Luma's full web site is due to launch soon and in the meantime you can sign up your email.
3. Natural Organic Soap. Stacks of amazing-smelling soaps made from oils and butters, and absolutely no dodgy petrol ingredients whatsoever. (Warning: site comes with excessive use of Flash!)
4. September Organic. Okay, so this outfit has been around for a while. But it makes delicious ice cream with wholly organic ingredients and has flavours like Brown Bread. If you're bored of Green and Blacks' ice cream, give September a whirl by trying its freezer bag mail order.
5. Beautiful Organics. Stockists of organic smellies that you can't find in the shops, including Miessence's rather nice shampoos, cleansers, mineral masks, moisturisers and more. Everything's Australian Certified Organic (the Oz equivalent of the Soil Association).
6. Hug. The maker of my favourite kids' organic togs - featuring slogans such as 'Stop the Wailing' and 'I recycle my tantrums' - has expanded in to adult stuff with the first ever Fairtrade and organic-certified jeans. The cut's fairly conventional, loose and straight, and they feel incredibly soft to the touch. They're £90 a pair.
7. Albatross. More organic cotton goodness, in the shape of rich-feeling towels, bed linen and pillows. A percentage of profits go to the Save the Albatross charity.
8. Organix. This organic kids' food maker was out in force, distributing classy pirate hats as well as samples of its gunk-free gingerbread biscuits, fruit bars and other snacks. It even sells a rather good Wotsit alternative that's free of artifical nastiness and tastes lovely. Of course, I didn't steal much any food from the kids.
9. Manna Organic. Love organic food but fancy the occasional ready meal minus the junk? Sign up with this luxury ready meal maker for organic charred aubergine and coconut curry, cappuccino cheesecake, lamb tagine and more. Delivery's UK-wide, but shops are limited to Dorset.
10. Fresh Daisy Organic. Again, strictly for kids and, again, pillaged by me in the name of 'research'. The highlight of Daisy's comprehensive range is the outlandish yet scrumptious Minty Apple smoothie ice cream. Highly recommended, and  made entirely with organic milk, naturally.

All these organic brands - and too many more to mention - were at the Organic Food Festival held in Bristol 1-2 September.

Comments

[rayman]

Organic foods are made according to certain production standards, meaning they are grown without the use of conventional pesticides and artificial fertilizers.Now I buy only green product.

[Mr. Carriage Clocks]

Its good to see organic foods growing they taste so much better and dont leave you feeling toxic